Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project is nearly complete at 99.05% progress. The project involves extensive code commits and updates to improve or restore the game. (github.com)
Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
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Complete, byte-identical decompilation of Resident Evil 4 for the Nintendo GameCube (G4BE08 debug build, Nov 25 2004 prototype, both discs) into C and C++. Building reproduces main.dol and all 114 REL overlays exactly. The tree contains 1,083 objects (675 in the DOL, 408 across RELs), 15,641 functions, roughly 555k lines of C/C++ source and 33k lines of headers, with no hand-written assembly files in game code. Toolchain details and middleware are preserved: the game is reproduced with SN Systems ProDG/GCC 2.95.3, CRI libraries from Metrowerks CodeWarrior, and Nintendo SDK units; the repository itself contains no game assets, so original debug-disc images are required to build. Build uses Python 3 and ninja and verifies outputs with byte-level checksums and compare tools included in the repo.
The decompilation documents the matching methodology and artifacts: every unit is compiled to the original bytes, compiler-driven deviations are annotated with COMPILER-DIFF comments, and an asm-removal pass converted earlier hand-placed asm back to C where feasible. Remaining assembly is limited to code originally written in assembly or compiler-inexpressible paired-single/cache/GQR kernels and eight asm-bodied units; these are documented and isolated. Functions keep Capcom’s debug-symbol names; struct fields mix vendor names, reconstructed names, and placeholder offsets. Materials and tools are released for research and preservation; reconstructed IP remains owned by its original holders, while build tools and docs are CC0.
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